Article mention volume for any topic as a normalized time series, growth rates, and the live Google News top stories feed. Media monitoring without the enterprise contract or per-seat pricing.
# one POST, every source POST https://api.trendsapi.ai/api Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY { "mode": "get_growth", "source": "news volume", "keyword": "artificial intelligence", "percent_growth": ["3M", "12M"] }
{
"search_term": "artificial intelligence",
"data_source": "news volume",
"results": [
{
"period": "3M",
"growth": 11.3,
"direction": "increase"
},
{
"period": "12M",
"growth": 87.2,
"direction": "increase"
}
]
}Legacy media monitoring sells dashboards with per-seat contracts and metered history. Trends API gives you the underlying signal as JSON: how many articles mention your topic, week over week, normalized so you can compare news attention against search interest and social buzz in the same units.
Mention volume answers the PR question that impressions cannot: did coverage actually grow, or did the same story get syndicated to the same audience? Pair it with the news sentiment source to see tone and attention together.
Check whether the campaign actually moved mention volume.
News attention on a company as an alternative-data signal.
Watch mention spikes around your brand in near real time.
See which topics are saturating the news cycle before pitching.
| Legacy media monitoring | Trends API | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | per-seat enterprise contracts | usage-based, self-serve |
| Historical volume | often metered extra | included to plan limit |
| Setup | sales call | 60 seconds |
| Cross-signal compare | news only | same scale as search, social, shopping |
| Free tier | trial only | 100 requests/month, no card |
Historical trend series for a keyword on this source, normalized 0-100.
Growth percentages over 3M / 6M / 12M / 5Y windows.
21 live trending feeds across platforms, no keyword needed.
Article mention volume for any topic as a normalized time series, growth percentages over 3M/6M/12M/5Y windows, and the live Google News Top News feed.
Each topic's series is rescaled against its own history to a 0-100 score, where 100 is the peak of the requested window. That makes news volume directly comparable to search interest or social buzz.
No. One Trends API key covers news volume, news sentiment and every other source.
Yes. Use the news sentiment source for positive/negative scoring over time; there is a companion page at /trends/news-sentiment.
The top-news feed updates continuously; mention series are computed on demand. Every response includes a timestamp.
100 requests a month free. No credit card, no sales call. One key works for every source.
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